sabato 12 agosto 2017

Glenn Hauser logs August 11-12, 2017

** BANGLADESH. 15505, August 12 at 1359, enough JBA signal from Bangladesh Betar
to detect IS or opening music to Urdu service, and talk by 1359.5, but no
timesignal audible by 1401. Perhaps they have prudently dispensed with it, since
they could never get it right? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MADAGASCAR. 17640, August 11 at 2004, pop song at
S7-S3, back-announced as ``Beautiful`` by Cristina Aguilera, which I assume is
secular; African Pathways Radio ID, with sked 11825 at 4-5 am, 17640 at 6-7 and
8-9 pm UTC. Co-hosts, one with African accent, the other not, bear story by the
latter, Franklin, Tennessee address, further program summary for first semihour.
Best I`ve heard this in a long time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 610, August 12 at 1129 choral NA, loops about SW, fade
for ID at 1130. More and more XE`s are playing anthem at hourbottoms for some
reason. Most likely XEBX Sabinas, Coahuila, but would welcome further XESAC
Saltillo, or XEEL Zacatecas. Also often heard is XEGS Guasave, Sinaloa, which is
partly // 650 XETNT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 660, August 12 at 1105, after choral NA,
XEDTL sign-on, Radio Cuidadana of IMER, Ciudad de México, also on an HD2 of some
FM frequency. XEEY Ags2 was already on and QRMing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. RF 17, Aug 11 at 2320 UT recheck, K17JN-D
Enid is almost back to normal with 5 different 3ABN subchannels on 17-1 thru
17-5, but 17-6 remains greenscreen only as ``test``. Ditto Aug 12 at
1458.

Aug 12 at 1814 UT check, my Sanyo only gets 17-6, even when I enter
17 or 17-1, but the Zenith STB gets all six, strange. Current PSIPs (not
necessarily valid 24/7 with this network):

** SPAIN. 17855,
Aug 11 at 2003, REE is on the air, but very poor S1, AND about the same level as
17715. Normally 17855 is MUCH stronger on N American antenna than 17715 on S
American. Also yesterday I noticed 17855 was unusually weak, at first almost
missed it in bandscan, but no comparison made to 17715. Now, also 15390 &
15520 are no better. Therefore I conclude that 17855 is not really on the NAm
antenna at 290 degrees, and/or greatly reduced power so reception is the same as
17715 at 230 degrees. On Saturday August 12, when they open four hours earlier
at 1400, I observe the same situation, both 17s only S3 max.

Spanish
DXers are very concerned about missing frequencies, suspecting as I have, that
REE is turning them off deliberately to see whether anyone notices or cares. On
the noticiasdx yg, Pedro Sedano, chief coordinator of AER replies (in Google
translation enhanced by gh):

``The problems of REE come as a result of
the cuts in their technical and human resources. On the one hand, they have a
few damaged transmitters, some used as a source of spare parts. On the other
hand, the technical team is restless, which in addition to the method of
broadcasting makes failures more obvious. Failures were not so detectable
before. Now it's clear when transmitters fail.

Not everything is bad; now
the programming is not repeated, much of it is from other stations in the group,
so it gains in freshness even if there is no distinction geographically. All the
frequencies emit the same thing. This whole matter of broadcasting 4 hours on 4
frequencies at a time, means a saving of personnel, having automated part of the
process, but, of course, the breakdowns --- because the equipment is already
starting to be old, due to the lack of spare parts and exclusive maintenance
personnel.

On the other hand, REE's technical secretariat automatically
receives the reception reports from the AER website http://ree.aer.org.es and have the commitment
to send QSLs to the correct ones, but *nobody* has reported to us that they have
kept their word. In any case, we must make it possible for REE to continue on
the air in the best possible way, so collaboration is very important`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15016-USB, August 12 at 1409, US military cypher
message totally in fonetix, ID as ``Cockfight``, background noise surges between
alfanumeric characters; ``JM53CN`` heard several times --- almost looks like a
grid square which one lookup

leads
to Tunisia; later same group just as start of a longer sequence. Interruptions
with ``more to follow``, ``All stations, all stations, this is Cockfight, this
is Cockfight``; ``no response``. Recheck 1444 still going with this stuff (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17530, August 11 at 1404, open
carrier at tune-in, cuts off in a few seconds. Presumed VOA Greenville-B in
day-shift test to be sure it will work when needed a few hours later (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1890
monitoring: confirmed Friday August 11 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9331.400v-CUSB, fair.
Next:

Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND

Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to
WSW

Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE

Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE

Sun 0315v
WA0RCR 1860-AM ND

Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW

Sun 2330 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW

Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW

Mon 0330 WRMI
9955 to SSE

Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW

Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to
WNW

(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15770, Aug 11 at
2009 no signal from WRMI which is normally very weak but detectable; while 15760
WHRI blasts. 21525 missing too. At 2013, 11825 is off, on a split second, back
off. At 2014, 11580 is on during `Wavescan`, and as soon as I tune back to
11825, it`s back with BS. Also now on and detectable: 9955, 15770, 21525. Must
have been a power failure. Later storm maps showed nothing over FL (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17777, Aug 11 at 2001, KVOH
still off-frequency, now with hymn amid weekly English bihour extension. Never
on air weekends, so next chance to check will be 1400 Monday Aug 14 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15825, August 11 at 2008, WWCR
gospel huxter, amid squeals out of defective transmitter, which surge during
brief pauses (so obviously modulation related, not from an external source QRM);
at S9-S6 with sporadic E enhancement from one megameter distance. Maybe it`s
ever so, only noticeable when we get a bigsig.

9350, Friday August 11 at
2100, happen to tune across this WWCR as ``Thunderbird Radio, the only American
Indian program on shortwave`` is opening --- soon obviously merely by Baptist
converts.

Must be something new, as NOT on the program schedule for
WWCR-2 at 4-5 pm CT: with Golden Age of Radio on Wed/Fri except Faith Defenders
on first Friday (and this is the second). PDF sked now dated August 1 *still*
shows wrong UTC time conversion as if Central Time were still standard at 6
hours behind instead of daylight at -5 hours!

``Today
1823 Arikara warriors attack an American expedition. A force of 500 Sioux
warriors finds the Arikaras and a battle takes place. Col. Henry Leavenworth
soon arrives with a force of 200 soldiers. The US Cavalry claim 50 Arikara dead
and the Sioux take 9.

Sioux (Lakota) Moon when the geese shed their
feathers

Call to Worship: Steve Rose: THE PURE JOY OF WORK

Todays
Message: A REVOLUTION IS NEEDED TODAY

Scripture: EPHESIANS
6:4``

Previous entries claim strange schedule on WWCR: ``August 9, 2017
Radio Program admin August 11, 2017 at 7:19 am 0 Comment(s) We have uploaded the
Radio program that was recorded for August 9, 2017, 2017 [sic]. To listen live,
tune in to WWCR Nashville every Wednesday at 3:30PM CST & Sundays at 2:00PM
CST [sic, and no frequencies].

So I go back to the August sked grid and
check all four transmitters at those CDT(!) times. Aha! WWCR-1 15825 AND WWCR-2
9350, Wed at 3:30 is `Buffalo River Church`, with the same Jack Neima. No
entries under that name at 2:00 pm Sunday or anywhen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9930, August 11 at 2015 check, WTWW-2 is
still AWOL, no Dave Ramsey. Haven`t heard it in some weeks, altho #2 is
funxional some evenings on 5085.

9930, Sat Aug 12 at 1800, still off, so
no `Theater Organ in the Ozarx` today either; however, 9475 WTWW-1 is on but
just barely modulated, enough to tell the QSO ham show is already underway,
since when? mentioning ``repeaters`` rather than SFAW white supremacy nonsense
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1480, August 12 at 1123
UT, open carrier/dead air, at first suspected KBXD Dallas until I hear that in
Spanish gospel underneath, so now presumed KQAM Wichita, and making usual slow
SAH together (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED.
1020-, Aug 12 at 1113 UT, annoying low het to KOKP Perry OK, slightly on low
side; in addition to a much closer SAH to KOKP. Also heard previous mornings;
can`t get a reliable bearing on it or enough signal to separate it.